Central Coast Craft Beer Week is back, this time with even more breweries

After a one-year hiatus, Central Coast Craft Beer Week is back, putting the spotlight on the region’s craft brewers over 10 days of events spanning from Paso Robles to Ventura.

The Central Coast Beer Trail, which is organizing the festivities, has more than doubled in size in just a couple of years, with 34 breweries compared with 14 in 2015. Started in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties as the Central Coast Brewers Consortium, the rebranded group is now expanding into Monterey and Ventura counties as well.

“The growth of the beer trail along the Central Coast is a direct result of consumers’ demand for local craft beer,” Beer Trail President Kady Fleckenstein said. “Consumers want variety with a focus on community pride, and we’re proud to have such a wide variety of beer styles and establishments ranging from tasting rooms to brew pubs to full production facilities.”

The nonprofit group held the first Central Coast Craft Beer Week in 2014 but skipped last year as it reorganized and rebranded, including building a new website, interactive and printable maps and social media feeds.

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Beers from more than 30 trail breweries will be available at the Central Coast Beer Trail Tap Takeover from 6 to 9 p.m. on March 31 at Libertine Brewing Co.’s new San Luis Obispo taproom. That event is a fundraiser for the nonprofit beer trail, as is the Best of the Central Coast Beer Trail that will cap off the week’s festivities in Santa Barbara on April 2.

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